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  > Companies with more than $1 billion gross revenue or more than 500 employees would be scheduled to increase their minimum pay to $25/hour by 2031, while smaller employers would be on a longer timeline to reach $25/hour by 2038. I wish we would stop chasing moving targets here. 2031 is just 5 years, but what will it mean with inflation? Using an [inflation calculator](https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/) and comparing $25 from five years ago (2021), to today's inflation rate, it brin...

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  I second this. I'm almost always too hot and realized years ago that polyester fabrics made it worse. It's one of the reasons my ex and I used different blankets - I used a 100% cotton sheet, but he was the type of person who's usually cold, so he used fuzzy polyester blankets. He thought my blanket was too light, while I thought his was too hot. The struggle to avoid polyester is the hardest part. I have a significant yarn collection for all my art projects, but over the past few y...

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  Important question: can we use weapons? I assume that in a no-holds-barred fight for our/other peoples' lives, weapons would be allowed. In this case, yes, I absolutely would fight the komodo dragon. I may not have brawn, but I regularly MacGyver crafts from almost literally anything I come across (it's practically a compulsion. You know how when you put on a bandaid, you peel off a bit of paper that covers the sticky ends? I mindlessly made a [cootie catcher](https://www.skiptomylou.o...